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2016

December 2016

Degreane Horizon (VINCI Energies International & Systems), together with ONERA (French national office for aerospace studies and research), has won the contract to renovate the French space surveillance system (GRAVES) on behalf of the French defence procurement authority (DGA).

On 22 December 2016, the joint venture notably comprising Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets was issued the final acceptance certificate by the client Bechtel – representing oil company Chevron – for the Wheatstone project.

VINCI, which has for many years given priority to collaborative innovation, organises the VINCI Innovation Awards every two years. The competition is designed to showcase and speed up application of initiatives implemented by its employees on the ground. For the 2015 edition, a first student innovation challenge was organised in parallel with the in-house participative innovation programme. This year, for the first time, the VINCI Innovation Awards competition is open to students (and recent graduates) from all over the world, who are invited to set up teams and innovate for the city of tomorrow.

The ceremony kicking off France-Colombia Year 2017, which includes VINCI among its sponsors, took place on 16 December 2016 in Bogotá’s Bolívar Square, in the presence of French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa.

VINCI Immobilier’s hotels division signed a property development contract with the Ascott Group on 21 November 2016, for the transformation of an office complex in the 8th arrondissement of Paris into a 5-star hotel, named the La Clef Champs Elysées – Paris.

Envision™ Platinum certification was awarded in November 2016 to the Ohio River Bridges – East End Crossing project for its sustainable management and rewarded the efforts and dedication of the teams involved.

VINCI Construction and Sunpartner Technologies, a French specialist in the field of solar innovation, announce the creation of a 50/50 joint venture and launch “Horizon”, an intelligent and connected window.

Sudeau and the community authorities in the south of Reunion Island (CASUD) have awarded Sogea Réunion (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) the contract to replace a 1,100 m-long section of the Pont du Diable penstock pipe.

Near Touho, on the north-east coast of New Caledonia, a VINCI Construction Dom-Tom joint venture composed of Dumez GTM Calédonie, Fondacal and Nord Equipement is currently building the Grand Kokingone Bridge, a 74 m-long girder bridge with an embedded deck.

A joint venture formed by Eurovia’s Grenoble (leader) and Chambéry offices has renewed the surface of the A41S – known as “l’Alpine” – between Crolles and Le Touvet (south-east France), on behalf of AREA (the local highways operating company).

VINCI Immobilier and ANF Immobilier signed an agreement on 29 September 2016 for the off-plan sale of a four-star hotel in Bordeaux (west of France), located in the new Armagnac business district, near the future HSL station.

Eurovia Germany’s Leipzig and Dresden offices are working on a project to group together tramway and railway tracks in Chemnitz (Saxony), the aim being to create direct links between the city and its outskirts.

Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network) has just been awarded the Mwea Irrigation Development Project, which aims to double annual production on 7,200 hectares of existing rice fields, by the National Irrigation Board.

On the project to widen the A63 between Biriatou and Biarritz (south-west France), to protect local residents from the noise pollution associated with heavy traffic, teams from VINCI Construction Terrassement are creating, on a 20-km section, 50,000 sq. metres of noise barriers (between 1.5 and 6 m in height).

In November 2016, Envision™ Platinum certification was awarded to the Ohio River Bridges – East End Crossing project by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

November 2016

In 1986, an accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station released radioactive dust into the air, which contaminated the area north of Kiev (Ukraine) and then spread across Europe. In November 2016, a new confinement arch – which will envelop reactor 4 and the dismantling work on it – is sliding into its final position. This project is unique worldwide, was led by two French groups – VINCI Construction and Bouygues Construction – and cost €1.5 billion.

After three years of works, the Borne Romaine Tunnel, on the A8 motorway, was inaugurated on 17 November 2016 by Adolphe Colrat, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes department and Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, in the presence of many leading local figures, including Christian Estrosi, chairman of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and chairman of the Nice-Côte d’Azur metropolis.

Ceteau-Céans, a project company composed of VINCI Construction France and VINCI Construction Terrassement, signed a public-private partnership agreement on 18 November 2016 with the Charente-Maritime department for the financing, design & planning, construction and maintenance and renewal works relating to a port extension at the fishing port of La Cotinière, on the island of Oléron.

After three years of works, the Borne Romaine Tunnel, on the A8 motorway, was inaugurated on 17 November 2016 by Adolphe Colrat, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes department and Pierre Coppey, chairman of VINCI Autoroutes, in the presence of many leading local figures, including Christian Estrosi, chairman of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and chairman of the Nice-Côte d’Azur metropolis.

The Bar-le-Duc sector of Eurovia’s Champagne-Ardenne - Vitry - Saint-Dizier office has finished its renovation of the RN4 trunk road, in the Meuse department (east of France), on which teams have been working since 2013.

Foundation Enterprises North West (FENW), an association providing services for homeless people, is the fourth organisation to benefit from support from VINCI Construction UK, via the VINCI UK Foundation.

A joint venture notably comprising STRF’s Boissy-le-Cutté office (leader), Signature Grands Travaux and Chadel, three Eurovia subsidiaries, is currently developing the public spaces in the Grande Borne neighbourhood of Grigny (Paris region) on behalf of the Lacs de l’Essonne conglomeration.

In a 50/50 joint venture with Downer NZ, Soletanche Bachy International (VINCI Construction) has been awarded a contract by Auckland Transport for preparatory works for the City Rail Link project, i.e. the construction of two underground railway tunnels in the centre of the New Zealand capital.

VINCI Construction Terrassement and its subsidiary Navarra TS are once again demonstrating their ecological development expertise during the project to eliminate the Chat-Cros dam, in the Évaux-les-Bains region (central France).

Within the framework of a call-off contract, since June 2015 Eurovia’s Ludres office has been carrying out the external works part (roadways, utilities) of the programme to redevelop the public spaces in the Nancy Grand Cœur neighbourhood (east of France).

In the east of France, teams from Eurovia’s Bavilliers office (leader) and VINCI Construction Terrassement Centre
Alsace Franche-Comté are working on a project for the Haute-Saône department (client and project manager) to provide 2x2 lanes on a 9 km section of the RN57 between Besançon and Vesoul.

Following the construction of the supports in 2015, in summer 2016 Eurovia Béton handed over the two decks of the Petit-Lay viaduct over a 25 m-deep valley on the RD 949B at Bournezeau (west of France) to the competent departmental authority.

At Marcoule (south of France), on behalf of the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission), Eurovia Méditerranée’s Nîmes office is completing, after two years of works, the external works for a building for the storage of nuclear waste.

From 10 to 27 October 2016, teams from Eurovia’s Le Mans office were at work renewing the surface of the famous Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans (north-west France), created in 1965; the track, over 4 km in length, had not been totally refurbished since 2004.

October 2016

On 31 October 2016, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, together with his Ivorian counterpart, Daniel Kablan Duncan, and the Ivorian Minister for Infrastructure, Patrick Achi, inaugurated the Songon drinking water treatment plant in Abidjan, built by Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network).

On 11 October 2016, in the Andromède eco-neighbourhood of Blagnac (south-west France), VINCI Immobilier laid the foundation stone for the Cérès Residence, a complex comprising 78 apartments and 20 villas.

In the Aube department, where one of its major aggregate production sites is scheduled to close, Eurovia has been granted authorisation to operate a loose rock (sand-lime) quarry in the commune of Blignicourt.

Over the summer of 2016, Eurovia Germany’s Stuttgart office implemented its biggest-ever “compact asphalt” project (the simultaneous application of two layers in order to avoid heat loss from the surface course), i.e. over a surface area of some 96,000 sq. metres, in the heart of the Black Forest, in the south-west of the country.

Electrix, J&P Richardson and HEB Construction are some of the recent acquisitions that have given VINCI Energies and VINCI Construction an opportunity to establish a position or extend their networks in New Zealand and Australia. At a time when both countries are investing heavily in infrastructure, VINCI Group entities operating in Oceania are building synergies.

ERDF has awarded HDI (Entrepose/VINCI Construction) and Sogea Nord-Ouest TP (VINCI Construction France), in a joint venture, the creation of a crossing beneath the Loire for two new HV power lines (20,000 volts each) between the communes of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and Rochecorbon, to the east of Tours (central France).

After creating the two Montélimar (southern France) motorway service areas for concessionaire Shell, Eurovia’s Drôme Ardeche office has been awarded the reconstruction of the northern Les Bréguieres service area, on the A8 motorway near Mougins (south of France), which it will undertake in association with Eurovia’s Nice office.

Petit, a VINCI Construction France subsidiary, has been appointed to implement, on a general contracting basis, and after site clearance and asbestos removal, the Kosmo project in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Paris.

The winners – among 130 competing entries – in the BIM d’Or competition, which honours current best practice in the use of digital models, were announced on 19 September 2016; three Group companies were among the final winners.

In September 2016, VINCI Autoroutes teams were preparing to introduce new arrangements specifically for the passage of a convoy headed for the site of the ITER project, being implemented by VINCI at Cadarache (south of France).

Eurovia Québec Grands Projets has won the contract to upgrade the crash barriers on the viaducts located on the A25 motorway near its intersection with the A640, which serves towns in the northern areas of Montreal.

eams from the new substation division at the Lindow office (Eurovia Germany) are currently working on six substations in eastern Germany, including the substation in Vierraden (Brandenburg), where they are due to supply, by 2018, several hundred concrete foundations, a firewall and two large oil separators as well as roadways and green areas.

A Eurovia joint venture composed of ETF Grands Projets RFN (leader), ETF Agence Caténaire, EJL IDF Chelles, Cardem Pyro (and Cardem Paris as a subcontractor of ETF) and Flan Terrassement is currently creating a works base in Chelles and Vaires-sur-Marne (Paris region) for the fourth “suite rapide” track-laying train which, as of January 2017, will start implementing the contract awarded to ETF (Eurovia) by SNCF Réseau in September 2015.

On 1 September 2016, VINCI Immobilier, in a co-promotion with ANF Immobilier, signed five off-plan sale contracts in respect of the mixed-use development project at the Armagnac site in Bordeaux. Ideally located near the future HSL station, this development programme will extend over a surface area of some 43,000 sq. metres.

Inaugurated a few days ago, the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge set a new world record for span length with 1,408-metre. It exceeds the world record previously held by the Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia, which has a 1,104 metre central span and is also fitted with Freyssinet cables.

August 2016

UNESCO recently added 17 schemes by Franco-Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris – better known as Le Corbusier – to their list of World Heritage Sites. Here, we take a look at those three that VINCI’s teams have been involved with: the Firminy Unité d’Habitation, the Cité Radieuse in Marseille and the Cité de Refuge in Paris’s 13th Arrondissement.

On the A63 motorway widening worksite between Biriatou and Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Cognac TP (Eurovia) and VINCI Construction Terrassement are currently completing works to reconnect waterways and improve hydraulic structures.

VINCI Immobilier is starting to market KALEÏ, a mixed-use development in the heart of the 13th arrondissement of Paris that enables future residents to simulate their future consumption and optimise their costs.

The Central Europe-Atlantic Road (RCEA), a series of trunk and secondary roads crossing France from east to west, is currently the subject of an upgrading operation being undertaken by a joint venture led by Eurovia’s Chalon-sur-Saône office.

In August 2016, Entrepose (VINCI Construction), VINCI Construction Grands Projets and their partner Thiess handed over to their client Bechtel (representing oil company Chevron) two of the four structures making up the project, i.e. a 150,000 cu. metre liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank and a 120,000 cu. metre condensate reservoir.

Dodin Guadeloupe (VINCI Construction Dom-Tom) has just completed the construction, on a general contracting basis, of the new headquarters of the Department for the Environment, Development and Housing in Saint-Phy, in the south of Basse-Terre.

July 2016

VINCI embarks on the path of open innovation, through multiple partnerships with the players in its ecosystem – young entrepreneurs in particular. Proposing new services for users of its infrastructure, optimising the performance of its business activities and worksites, or integrating new technology bricks into its business solutions – many challenges await the Group and its entities as they speed up their digital transformation.

Urban transformation and innovation took pride of place at the “Lab” staged by VINCI Energies, alongside Cisco, at the Viva Technology Paris 2016 event which, over three days, brought together several thousand investors and leaders of innovative companies around startups from all over the world.

To respond to organisation of the UEFA Euro 2016 championship and equip the host cities with high-quality sports and festive venues for decades to come, France has built a new generation of stadiums. Three new stadiums hosting the competition were built by VINCI. Many innovations were introduced around these projects in terms of construction, sustainable development, urban marketing and new business activities.

A Eurovia joint venture composed of Eurovia Sénart (leader) and EJL Cannes-Écluse is currently implementing the external works (roadways and utilities) and the car park external works works packages of the project to extend, by 30,000 sq. metres, the Carré Sénart retail centre in the Seine-et-Marne department (Paris region).

May 2016

After almost three years of works, the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux (west of France) was inaugurated on 31 May in the presence, notably, of French President François Hollande, Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux, and Hugues Fourmentraux, chairman of VINCI Construction France.

VINCI raised the first frame at the construction site for the building that will link the South and West terminals at Paris-Orly Airport on 13 May, watched by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Augustin de Romanet, Chairman & CEO of the Aéroports de Paris Group, and Xavier Huillard, Chairman & CEO of VINCI.

April 2016

The first meeting of the Rendez-vous des Fondations VINCI (Meetings of the VINCI Foundations) took place, attended by about a hundred people, on 26 April in Paris, and focused on the subject of gaining access to and retaining housing.

March 2016

NOVARKA, a 50/50 joint venture formed by VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader) and Bouygues Travaux Publics, is currently building a new safe confi nement over the Unit 4 reactor at Chernobyl, which exploded on 26 April 1986.

In Cambodia, where it has operated for 20 years, VINCI works through its subsidiary VINCI Airports to support airport traffic growth driven by economic momentum and tourism. The inauguration of the Phnom Penh and Siem Reap airport expansions takes place on 16 March 2016. These projects, which raise each airport’s capacity to 5 million passengers per year, move the two airports into a new international airport category.

In the Dutch city of Eindhoven, Axians (VINCI Energies) is taking part in the collaborative AirEAS project, which gives citizens access to real time information on air quality in their neighbourhoods. The next step will be to introduce dynamic traffic control based on this data.

VINCI, Grand Patron of the Chateau of Versailles for more than a decade, has undertaken a further project for the Public Establishment of the Museum and National Estate of Versailles. On 2 March 2015, the VINCI Group signed a new sponsorship agreement covering the conversion of the Dufour Pavilion into a visitor centre bringing together the reception area and the full range of visitor services. This new space opened to the public on the 23th of February.

France is building a new generation of stadiums in preparation for UEFA Euro 2016 that will give host cities state-of-the art sports and entertainment venues for decades to come. Just 100 days from the launch of Euro 2016, VINCI, which has rolled out its design-financing-construction-operation and maintenance expertise in this area in Paris, Nice, Lyon and Bordeaux, takes stock of these 21st-century stadiums.

A consortium notably comprising VINCI Construction Terrassement (leader) and Eurovia (joint contractor) is implementing a project to re-route the A9 motorway at Montpellier (south of France). On the eastern part of the worksite, Cardem (Eurovia) has been demolishing engineering structures on the present motorway, which is currently being widened, since late 2014 – these bridges have become inadequate for their task.

Within the framework of the T2 tram line project in Nice (south of France), Soletanche Bachy (VINCI Construction), as part of a consortium, is supplying the civil engineering works of the underground section of the future line: a 3.2 km-long tunnel, four underground stations and the entrance and exit shafts.

By a decree dated 29 January 2016 and published on 31 January 2016, the French government awarded the VINCI joint venture the concession contract for the western Strasbourg bypass motorway (A355). The project involves the design, financing, construction and operation of a 24 km-long, 2x2-lane motorway aimed at attracting the through traffic that currently uses the A35 (due to subsequently be transformed into an urban boulevard) to get past Strasbourg.

February 2016

In parallel with its restoration, started in October 2013, the Dufour Pavilion has undergone a major programme of interior refurbishment works, in accordance with a sponsorship agreement signed in March 2015 by VINCI, Grand Patron of the Château of Versailles, and was opened to the public on 23 February 2016.

The transformation of the Jacobin monastery into a congress centre in Rennes combines new construction and heritage restoration in a technically complex project. The 14th century landmark, revisited with 21st century expertise, will embark on a new life in early 2017.

By combining its concession and construction know-how, VINCI has won a major contract, the Regina motorway bypass in the province of Saskatchewan. The project will bring into play the complementarity between Eurovia's regional roots through its subsidiary Carmacks in the neighbouring province of Alberta, and the expertise of VINCI Construction Terrassement in major linear infrastructure projects.

VINCI is a global player in concessions and construction, employing more than 185,000 people in some 100 countries. We design, finance, build and operate infrastructure and facilities that help improve daily life and mobility for all. On the occasion of the Forum "Focus métiers" of the French École nationale des ponts et chaussées, discover the video presentation of our four major divisions: VINCI Concessions, VINCI Energies, Eurovia and VINCI Construction.

January 2016

Designed by architects Michel Marcary, Aymeric Zublena, Michel Regembal and Claude Costantini, the Stade de France was built by VINCI and Bouygues in a record 31 months between May 1995 and November 1997. It was inaugurated on 28 January 1998.

VINCI Energies is taking part in DataCity, an open innovation programme on Smart Cities. The programme, launched in November 2015, brings together industrial partners, public authorities and project leaders to meet the challenges of the city of the future.

On 24 November, VINCI Concessions announced the launch of the VINCI Startup Tour, a roving competition held at European level. Its purpose is to detect promising innovative initiatives that reinvent the digital experience of the users of infrastructure operated by the Group.

After 29 months of works undertaken by Stade de Lyon Construction (VINCI Construction France), the Parc Olympique Lyonnais was formally opened on 9 January in the presence, notably, of Jean-Michel Aulas, president of the Olympique Lyonnais football club.

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